Win10 the Null char displays UTF8 Symbol - enhancement

[sameasiteverwas]

Windows 10, LE 1.6.13
Many people I know use LE to read log files that are delimited with SOH (or sometimes other chars).
�1=ABC�53=623x-5�55=xyz-123-a-abc�8300=2� etc
�1=DEF�53=asdf123-6-33�55=wtt-123-a.bd�98798=123� etc
The SOH now appears as a BOX.

This makes readability very challenging with very large, busy files.

With previous versions, it was nice to have SOH displayed as space.
To emulate this, I now apply a final hightlight rule:
search string: [\x00-\x1F]+
Case sensitive, RegEx
Foreground color = custom (white), background color n/a
Word Mode
No Background
This turns every SOH white.
This works fine with a white background.

A problem occurs when I have previous rules highlighting lines to a color other than white, the SOH BOX shows up as white on a colored background.

A few ideas to resolve this issues:

1. Configurable control character displays.
2. Highlighting and action trigger, Coloring, Foreground color= none? transparent? no foreground?

Originally posted by @sameasiteverwas in #38 (comment)

[zarunbal]

Thanks for moving this.

What would you see as change for "configureable control character displays"? I have following ideas currently:

1. Create a config file where such replacements can be configured as regex
2. New config file tab / dialog to configure such replacements (could be enhacement of the first idea)

Do you have other Ideas how this could be solved

[Hirogen]

Thanks for moving this.

What would you see as change for "configureable control character displays"? I have following ideas currently:

1. Create a config file where such replacements can be configured as regex

2. New config file tab / dialog to configure such replacements (could be enhacement of the first idea)

Do you have other Ideas how this could be solved

I'd prefer a new config file tab / dialog

[Hirogen]

• Add Control Character Config Tab (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character)